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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
Ironically vice versa its the same: this is just the point, where not only opinions, but far more crash. I'd call it a kind of user generations conflict: the "earlier ones" were used to: "either you learn how to do it or just go away" - that was the prize of using a computer. Just as getting a driver's license is the prize to pay for driving a car. *sigh* unfortunately it's the point of view of a group of users getting percentually smaller as time passes by...
It's just like with these support wheels on a kid's bike or the backside of a wheelchair - as long as you are not a good driver they are supportive - when you passed a certain level of experience they become a hindering nuissance.
Usually I'd just say, when you're happy with em, keep 'em, but for God's sake gimme a wrench to take them off from my device.
and that's the problem with some of these "new and shiny" devices - you can't take this little pestilent addon-wheels off anymore... This is actually the point driving the experienced users up the barricades - not the fact that "user-friendly-acces" to the device exists, but the fact, that the freedom to choose or DIY is taken away.
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Techies often say Apple doesn't originate anything. If that's the case, and it's all Apple hype, it should be easy for rivals to overtake Apple.
As a non-techie, I'd welcome products that are easy to use, but also let techies tinker away. (I'm not wedded to Apple, and I hate iTunes.) Non-techies have money to spend. It's up to techies to deliver alternative products. To just fear, loathe or deride Apple doesn't advance "the cause." Without delivering alternative products, all you (generic you) are doing is demanding that non-techies get technical, or avoid companies like Apple and settle for products that are more difficult to use. That's not going to happen.